Is it necessary to create a separate page for each article on a website to include article numbers in the URL?

It is not necessary to create a separate page for each article on a website to include article numbers in the URL. Instead, you can use a single page template to display different articles based on the article number in the URL. This can be achieved by parsing the article number from the URL and fetching the corresponding article content from a database. 

<?php
// Assuming the URL structure is like: example.com/article.php?article=1

// Connect to database
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "username";
$password = "password";
$dbname = "articles";

$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);

// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
    die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}

// Get article number from URL
$article_number = $_GET['article'];

// Fetch article content from database
$sql = "SELECT * FROM articles_table WHERE article_number = $article_number";
$result = $conn->query($sql);

if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
    // Output data of each row
    while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
        echo "Article Title: " . $row["title"]. "<br>";
        echo "Article Content: " . $row["content"]. "<br>";
    }
} else {
    echo "0 results";
}

$conn->close();
?>

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